(1) University of Kansas School of Medicine. The Scientific Department, at Lawrence, was organized in 1899; the Clinical Department, at Rosedale, was organized by merger with a local school in 1905.
Entrance requirement: Two years of college work.
Attendance:: 89, 79 from Kansas, 8 from Missouri.
Teaching Staff: At Lawrence, anatomy, physiology, and bacteriology are taught by teachers whose instruction is confined to medical students; but the professor of anatomy is also professor of gynecology at Rosedale and practises his specialty. The pathologist is expected to eke out his income by outside work. Physiology, chemistry, and pharmacy are taught in general laboratories devoted to those subjects. The .medical classes are not always separate.
At Rosedale there is a teaching staff of 68, of whom 24 are professors. Two of them devote their whole time to teaching pathology, bacteriology, and clinical pathology. A third the dean of this end, likewise gives his entire time to the school and hospital.
Resources available for maintenance: The medical school shares in the general funds of the university. The budget for the current year is about $17,000 for the Scientific Department, and $23,000 for the Clinical Department. Income in fees, $5030.
Laboratory facilities: The laboratories for anatomy, chemistry, and physiology are good and in active operation. Pathology and bacteriology are, so far, less highly developed. Books and current scientific periodicals are accessible.
Clinical facilities: The Clinical Department has a small hospital of 35 beds, not used, however, to the best advantage, partly because the faculty is not composed of men whose training has been modern, partly because, being practitioners, they cannot devote time enough to teaching. The school enjoys additional privileges of the usual kind at a Catholic hospital in Kansas City, Kansas, and at the City Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. The obstetrical work is mainly out-patient; contagious diseases are rarely seen. On the whole, far too little clinical material under proper control is offered. An excellent building, well equipped, devoted to pathology, clinical pathology, and bacteriology, adjoins the university hospital. It contains a few books and some current periodicals.
Two dispensaries are available, one at the Rosedale building, not used for teaching until this year; the other, the so-called North End Dispensary, where a fair amount of material has hitherto been handled in an incredibly slipshod manner. Each of the two parts of the university school of medicine has its own dean; for all practical purposes, the university conducts two half-schools.
Date of visit: November, 1909.
